First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...

This book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a politi...

"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bia...

"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bia...

Ghosts of pirates, centuries dead, still roam New Englands coast and the towns they terrorized in life. Great ships rise from the bottom of the sea...

A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government...

This original study of Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century is presented through the use of period writings, paintings, and early photography...

For centuries Canada's Aboriginal peoples have sought to enter into treaties of peace and friendship with colonial settlers based on the principles...

Community planner Susan Guyette presents the first field-tested model of development planning that addresses the special concerns of Native America...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

Baseball is the most American game. No other sporting contest so closely reflects the American psyche and culture. Its uniqueness comes from the fa...

The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, ...

This is a 48 page volume that includes line drawings, photographs, and charts.

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

The present interdisciplinary study examines the poetic as well as the political staging of the Palatinate Wedding of 1613 in London in the occasio...